From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: perhaps help out some?? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <60ec9b340902151814l753be9fev1ccad97653e7ba07@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234757229 9455 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2009 04:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: William Hartnett Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 16 05:08:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LYumL-0005b5-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:08:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LYul1-0004cT-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LYukx-0004bS-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LYukv-0004bG-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37567 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LYukv-0004bD-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:45727 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LYukv-000096-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:53 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao4FAH90mElMCpTK/2dsb2JhbACBbs0ihBwGgzI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,214,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="33927173" Original-Received: from 76-10-148-202.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.148.202]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 15 Feb 2009 23:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4885584C5; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:06:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <60ec9b340902151814l753be9fev1ccad97653e7ba07@mail.gmail.com> (William Hartnett's message of "Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:14:11 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109098 Archived-At: > thanks much for emacs. I've used it for a lot of stuff, > but only now may be trying to actually learn it well... > don't (yet) know a lot about elisp, but is there something > you might suggest to help you guys that wouldn't be > really time-consuming?? As you may know, we're in the pretest phase for Emacs-23.1 Other than just using the pretest to try and find the remaining bugs, you can help us update the manuals. For that, just pick a chapter of the Emacs manual (and/or the Elisp manual), read it through and try to make sure that all it says is still true, and also that it doesn't forget to say something that is now true. Reading etc/NEWS is a prerequisite, of course. Once you've done that, please send us an email telling which chapter you've proofread, together with the problems you've found in it (which may be "none", but we still want to know you've proofread it). Stefan